Example sentences of "his [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Neil 's had his stolen you know !
2	He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ?
3	Via the dynamic of the perverse , Faustus violates Christianity in the name and image of Christ ; assimilating Christ to his opposite he discloses that opposite within Christ .
4	Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing .
5	Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded .
6	After Freud had done his worst it turned out that there was still an ‘ unanalysed residue ’ when he had a major relapse some years later .
7	To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind .
8	Two tables to his left I recognized the handsome young Guards major who had just become a father .
9	In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea .
10	Turning to his left he ran , making for T'ai Cho 's room and the labs beyond , hoping it was n't too late .
11	To his left he heard a low growl and a faint crunching noise .
12	With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could .
13	Over to his left he caught a glimpse of a Georgian mansion huddled a quarter-mile off the main road .
14	I said , actually , I 'd ordered his first I said , but I thought I 'd treat you .
15	As an adolescent and well into his twenties he had affected to despise the whole fairy tale — the people , the properties , the false virtues , the false security it represented .
16	In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant .
17	While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire .
18	In his 20s he became a director of N.M .
19	If people see Charlie on his own they say ‘ Where 's Kate ? ' ’ , and vice versa .
20	Oh he he had his own You mean my husband ?
21	But he had worked with a big er in a great big firm and he then he branched out on his own you know .
22	he set up on his own you see and my brothers went there .
23	He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that .
24	He did what little packing of his own he had to do , then ordered up a small supper : a club sandwich , ice-cream , bourbon and coffee .
25	He wondered how much of his own he had left .
26	It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought .
27	And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse .
28	It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time .
29	Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters .
30	For his latest he ropes in some 27 guest artists including John ‘ Drumbo ’ French ( formerly Captain Beefheart 's drummer ) , Bruce Anderson and Richard Thompson .

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